Month: September 2009

On Friday night another furry invited the whole Ottawa furry community for a party. There were surprisingly many people! At least 30 critters attended. Everyone chatted, danced, ate, gamed and spent a bit of time in the pool, all enjoying the event. There’s also a husky furry who got himself drunk, nyahaha~ As for Kakur me? Chasing around fursuiters and DJ all night~ must be annoying, no? But I did a perfect song transition too, seems I’ve learned something.

So many stars in the suburban night sky, but couldn’t figure out with one is which even after turning myself around several times holding a computer running Stellarium.

Hmm~ Da-Fox is the fursuiter who came this time. Hmm… after Howie and Deoge moved away, Da-Fox seems to be one of the few fursuiters left in the Ottawa region. Pretty handsome was Da-Fox in his suit playing the glowsticks in the beats. Zets came to this meet too, but didn’t wear his fursuit, so disappointing~ Also came with a fursuit is 774fox (no, it’s actually Nanashifox), who was hugged over and over by Da fursuit deficient Fox. Da-Fox also made sausages in the morning, but Kaku didn’t get to eat it, zannen… In the morning Kakurady played some FursuitTV, everybody seem to like watching it.

Measuring the room (not an easy task) yields the result that my room is a strange pentagon. Where do I put the shelves like that? When it comes to fursuit storage, everyone seem to have their own ways. Da-Fox uses a plastic container, one of these big boxes very suitable for airplane luggage. 774fox used large linen garbage bags. Zets simply got a chair and propped the fursuit on it. (Which gave his mom, who was expecting a much larger head, quite a surprise.)

Went to buy safety pins at the fabrics store today, because I want to make the tail of the fursuit, but can’t find the pins. Seeing my fursuit construction guide, the store staff surprised me with the question, “are you one of those furries”? Turns out a furry has commissioned her to make a fursuit! Unfortunately the store haven’t stocked fur rolls yet. Shared some fursuit construction websites.

最后尾巴还是没有开始制作。
And yet in the end, work on the tail still haven’t started.

Things sure are not as going smoothly as I hope. The school year is started again, and I came back with three failed courses. As usual I still couldn’t fit courses I want to my schedule. Or, for that matter figure out what courses I want. I’m now worried that with a screwed schedule like this I might not even be able to finish my four year program in five years. I also need to get high grades to offset effects of the last two years on my GPA. Sigh.
诸事进展并不像我希望的那么顺利。我带着三门砸了的科目回到新学期，像往常一样在课程表上找不到安放我想要的科目的地方。当然，前提是我知道我想要上什么课。我现在担心以这样乱七八糟的课程安排我大概五年都完不成我该四年完成的专业。而且我还要用高等第来拉平以前砸了的科目对我的GPA的影响。哎。

From the (three) Saturday garage sale I bought a grill and an microwave oven. … oh curses. Already run out of shelf space. Where should I put my new textbooks and fursuit now? This room needs a redesign badly! Adding insult to injury is the grill setting off the smoke alarm on the first use. And I didn’t realize I bought a book on Amazon for $50 (oh my wallet)…
从上周六旧货抛售中买到了微波炉和电烤盘。……可恶。已经没有地方放东西了。接下来新书和兽装放那里呢？房间急切需要重新设计！更讨厌的是烤盘第一次使用的时候就触发了烟雾探测器。

Which, on a happier note, is the only book on fursuits – Critter Costuming. It proves to be interesting, although not enlightening like A Theory of Fun. It was written five years ago, so things like head construction is somewhat out of date, and there’s a lot of stuff in it that is available in online fursuiting communities, but it has a nice overview of materials and also contains useful tips on performance. (Unfortunately, it doesn’t mention obscure-in-US stuff like the popular 502 resin glue.)